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...Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty...
Mostly because he had decided that the Western World was too much with him, but partly because in 1916 he picked up a certain book in a Paris bookshop, James Norman Hall went to Tahiti at the age of 33 to spend the rest of his life. That was in 1920. He is still there, still interested in Sir John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against...
...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...
...Dunster bookshop has been replaced by Bryant Hall, and the "backyard" of Kirkland House is now complete. The completion of the House, however, has resulted in the overcrowding of the library; the forty-odd extra members now occupying the annex drift into the seat of meditation in Hicks House in the natural course of events, and its rooms, formerly comfortable, are now too well filled...
Fear not the inevitable pun; if there is to be a sale, the Bookshop must announce the fact itself...